Ornamental hair piece

ABSTRACT

Disclosed is an ornamental hair piece. The ornamental hair piece includes hair strands with tips being connectively arranged in a row; an upper hair arranging band constituted by a base and securing loops, the base having a width and a height suitable for seating the tips of the hair strands thereon and the securing loops being successively formed on the top of the base in a lateral direction to pass through natural hair bundles therethrough; and a securing means for gathering and securing more than two bundles of natural hairs that passed through the securing loop, wherein, the base and the securing loops of the upper hair arranging band are made of flexible materials, and the securing means is positioned on the base.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to an ornamental hair piece.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As well-known in the art, as an increasing number of people wear hairwigs for reasons, such as, fashion and style, hair wigs of variouscolors and shapes are now available. In particular, there came a newhair fashion where a hair piece of a certain length was attached to thepath of existing natural hair of short length to make long hairtogether. In a conventional method, the hair piece was attached to awearer's natural hair with glue, silicon, etc. However, this method wasnot satisfactory for many problems. For instance, it damages hair and isweak against heat and water, so people could not wear the same in asauna and while swimming. Also, removing the hair piece involved anextra task, such as, removing silicon and so on, which procedure istedious and requires a significant measure of time, labor, and skill forimplementation.

As one way to overcome these problems, there is Korean Utility ModelRegistration No. 20-0303748, entitled “A Hair Piece”, which discloses amethod for connecting a hair piece to natural hairs by using metalrings. According to this prior art method, a metal ring is placed at ajoint between natural hair and a hair piece bundle and is compressedwith pincers. Although this method of connecting natural hair and a hairpiece with metal rings completely solved problems caused withapplications of glue, silicon, etc., it still required so much time tobe applied to the entire hair of a person because the metal ring had tobe applied to every single hair piece bundle. Moreover, since the metalrings and hair pieces were manufactured separately and notinterconnected, the operation work was not only uncomfortable, but alsocreated an unattractive look after the operation especially when allconnections between natural hair and hair piece are not uniformly done.In addition, because the metal rings were anchored individually andindependently, their compressive force may be got weaker after along-term use, which detaches the hair piece from natural hair whentouching it.

Therefore, in order to overcome the conventional attachment technique ofa hair piece bundle set forth above, a hair piece with the structurewhere hair strands of a uniform length are connected in width, as shownin FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C, has been developed in recent years. Referringto the drawings, the hair piece consists of a plurality of hair strandsor hair tufts 110 manufactured in certain length and color to meetuser's tastes, and a securing tie portion 120 for bridging end portionsof the hair strands 110 in a row to certain width. The securing tieportion 120 is formed of a thread used for stitching the end portions ofindividual hair strands 110 securely together. In addition, metal rings130 are arranged at regular intervals at one side of the securing tieportion 120. Using this conventional hair piece with the abovestructure, the securing tie portion 120 connectively securing the hairstrands 110 one after another is cut to certain length according to asize of a region of a wearer's head to be put on. The hair strands 110of a uniform size (width) thus cut are attached to existing natural hairof the wearer, and then locked up in place by pincers 102 or the like.With help of a hooked needle 103, the natural hairs 101 pass through themetal rings 130 that are positioned in the middle of the securing tieportion 120, and the metal rings 130 are firmly joined by the pincers102 to the natural hairs 101. In this manner, the natural hairs 101 andthe hair strands 110 are attached to each other.

The conventional technique described above is useful for attaching evenmore hair strands at once to the natural hairs 101 by successivelystitching end portions of the hair strands 110 to certain width.However, since the metal rings 130 connecting the hair strands 110 andthe natural hairs 101 are positioned on the upper end of the securingtie portion 120, the metal rings 130 come in direct contact with thewearer's scalp, going over the upper end of the securing tie portion 120when a wearer lies on his/her pillow to sleep. Consequently, the wearerfeels pain due to compression of the metal rings 130.

The metal rings 130 could be fixed onto the lower end of the securingtie portion 120 in order to solve the above problem. In such a case,however, since there is no separate means for securing the upper end ofthe securing tie portion 120, the securing tie portion 120 protrudes oris easily visible the outside of the natural hairs 101, thereby giving atufty, unnatural look of the hair piece at the hairline.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the aboveproblems of the prior arts, and it is a primary object of the presentinvention to provide an improved ornamental hair piece creating anatural attachment, while making a securing means, such as, metal rings,not in direct contact with a wearer's scalp.

In accordance with the present invention for achieving the above object,there is provided an ornamental hair piece including: hair strands withtips being connectively arranged in a row; an upper hair arranging bandconstituted by a base and securing loops, the base having a width and aheight suitable for seating the tips of the hair strands thereon and thesecuring loops being successively formed on the top of the base in alateral direction to pass through natural hair bundles therethrough; anda securing means for gathering and securing more than two bundles ofnatural hairs that passed through the securing loop, wherein, the baseand the securing loops of the upper hair arranging band are made offlexible materials, and the securing means is positioned on the base.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects and features of the instant invention willbecome apparent from the following description of preferred embodimentstaken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C illustrate a hair piece according to an embodimentof a prior art;

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of an ornamental hair pieceaccording to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a double layered state of hair strands configuring anornamental hair piece according to one embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged perspective view showing a major part ofsecurement of an ornamental hair piece according to one embodiment ofthe present invention to natural hairs;

FIG. 5 is a front view showing the application of adhesive members forsecurement of an ornamental hair piece according to one embodiment ofthe present invention;

FIG. 6A is a front view showing the use of metal rings for securement ofan ornamental hair piece according to one embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIGS. 6B, 6C, 6D, and 6E illustrate how to connect the metal rings ofFIG. 6A to natural hairs;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged perspective view showing a major part ofsecurement of an ornamental hair piece according to one embodiment ofthe present invention in use of shrinky techniques; and

FIG. 8 is an enlarge perspective view showing a major part of securementof an ornamental hair piece according to one embodiment of the presentinvention in use of braiding techniques.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will bedescribed in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, an ornamental hair piece 2 according to thepresent invention includes an upper hair arranging band 4 to which oneside of hair strands 100 a is attached. The upper hair arranging band 4is provided with a base 6 of a designated width and height so that tipsof the hair strands 100 a may be seated thereon, wherein a plurality ofsecuring loops 8 are successively formed in a longitudinal direction onthe top of the base 6 in order to pass through natural hair bundles.

The base 6 and the securing loops 8 of the upper hair arranging band 4are made of flexible materials, for example, a highly elastic fabriclike spandex or soft rubber materials. Since the base 6 and the securingloops 8 of the upper hair arranging band 4 are made of flexiblematerials, it is possible to alleviate pressure on a wearer's scalpcaused by a securing means such as metal rings 130 used for securing thehair strands 100 a to the natural hairs. In addition, in case the upperhair arranging band 4 is made of fabric, it can be dyed together withthe hair strands to a desired color.

Further, a plurality of hair strands (e.g., first and second hairstrands) 100 a and 100 b may be attached to the base 6 of the upper hairarranging band 4 at the same time in a layered structure. In this case,the first and the second hair strands 100 a and 100 b are sewn together,with the second hair strands 100b being positioned at a certain distanceaway from the top of the first hair strands 100 a, as depicted in FIG.3. With many hair strands in a multilayer structure, more natural layersof hairline can be formed.

Moreover, the hair piece of the present invention includes a securingmeans for securing the hair strands 2 with natural hair bundles 101 aand 101 b that passed through the securing loops 8. For the securingmeans, an adhesive member 20 composed of hot melt or glue (shot from aglue gun), a metal ring 130, a shrinky tube 30, rubber 40 and the likemay be used. Besides the aforementioned securing means, it is of coursepossible to utilize other types of securing means as long as they cansecure the hair strands 100 a to the natural hairs 101 a and 101 b.

Such a securing means is placed on the base 6 of the upper hairarranging band 4. Therefore, since the securing means such as the metalring 130 is placed on the base 6 of the upper hair arranging band 4, itdoes not come in direct contact with the scalp of a wearer of the hairpiece 2 during sleep.

FIG. 2 and FIGS. 6A through 6E illustrate a case where metal rings 130are used as the securing means. The natural hair bundles 101 a and 101 b(refer to FIG. 4) pass through the securing loops 8 through the metalrings 120 and are then secured with the hair piece 2. As depicted inFIGS. 2 and 4, and FIGS. 6A through 6E, natural hairs of a designatednumber of strands 101 a and 101 b are combined or collected into twobundles, respectively, and natural hairs 101 a of one of the bundlespass through the securing loop 8 at a specific position, while naturalhairs 101 b of the other bindle pass through another adjacent securingloop 8. The natural hairs 101 a and 101 b that passed through thesecuring loops 8 are secured with the hair piece 100 a by means of themetal ring 130.

Since the metal ring 130 is positioned at the top of the hair pieces 100a and 100 b on the lower part and on the top surface of the base 6 ofthe upper hair arranging band 4, it does not come in direct touch withthe wearer's scalp. Although two layered hair pieces 100 a and 100 b areillustrated in the drawings, it is obvious that more hair pieces can bepiled up according to selection of the wearer. That is to say,multi-layered hair pieces 100 a and 100 b may be attached in steps styleto the front side of the base 6 of the upper hair arranging band 4.

FIG. 5 is another embodiment of the securing means. In this embodiment,the adhesive member 20 such as hot melt or glue from a glue gun is usedas the securing means.

FIG. 7 illustrates a case where a shrinky technique is adopted for thesecuring means. A shrinky tube 30 melts an adhesive agent 32 applied tothe inner wall surface to secure natural hairs 101. This can be realizedby applying heat to the shrinky tube 30 through a hair clamp and thelike, so that the adhesive agent 32 on the inner wall surface of theshrinky tube 30 may melt for gluing natural hairs and hair pieces.

FIG. 8 illustrates a case where braiding is used as the securing means.That is, natural hairs that passed through the securing loops 8respectively are braided together in twist patterns, and the lower partof the braided natural hairs is tied with a string like an elastic cord40. After braiding, an outer surface of the elastic cord 40 is coatedwith a sprit gum separately, to ensure that the elastic cord 40 does notget loose easily.

As described so far, the ornamental hair piece according to the presentinvention is attached to natural hairs through the securing means likemetal rings that are provided to the upper hair arranging band. In thisway, the wearer's scalp does not come in direct contact with thesecuring means during sleep, and the wearer does not have a foreign-bodysensation due to the securing means. Moreover, because natural hairspass through the securing loops to be grafted to the hair piece, the topof the upper hair arranging band is closely adhered to natural hairs,thus creating a natural look of the hair piece at the hairline.

In addition, contrarily to conventional techniques for hair attachmentwhere hair pieces are grafted densely to natural hairs, consuming asignificant operation time, the hair pieces of the present invention aresparsely grafted to natural hairs, thereby saving the operation timethat much.

While the ornamental hair piece of the present invention has been shownand described with respect to particular embodiments, it will beapparent to those skilled in the art that many changes and modificationsmay be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventionas defined in the appended claims.

1. An ornamental hair piece, comprising: hair strands with tips beingconnectively arranged in a row; an upper hair arranging band constitutedby a base and securing loops, the base having a width and a heightsuitable for seating the tips of the hair strands thereon and thesecuring loops being successively formed on the top of the base in alateral direction to pass through natural hair bundles therethrough; anda securing means for gathering and securing more than two bundles ofnatural hairs that passed through the securing loop, wherein, the baseand the securing loops of the upper hair arranging band are made offlexible materials, and the securing means is positioned on the base. 2.The ornamental hair piece according to claim 1, wherein multi-layeredhair pieces are grafted to the base in steps style.
 3. The ornamentalhair piece according to claim 1, wherein the securing means includes anadhesive member consisting of hot melt or glue, a metal ring, a shrinkytube coated with an adhesive agent on an inner wall surface thereof, andan elastic cord.
 4. The ornamental hair piece according to claim 2,wherein the securing means includes an adhesive member consisting of hotmelt or glue, a metal ring, a shrinky tube coated with an adhesive agenton an inner wall surface thereof, and an elastic cord.